Are you looking for a fun way for your students to practice 3D shapes? They will LOVE reviewing their 3D shapes with this engaging, hands-on Free Printable 3D Shape Sort! This activity is perfect to add to your math center rotation, or to use during small groups. Sorting games are always a hit with the kiddos!

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getting started

Download the printable sort and cut out all of the pieces. You will want to laminate them if you are planning to use them several times in your classroom. Make sure to grab something to keep all of the pieces together to store such as a sandwich bag.

to play

To play the 3D shape sort, you can start with just a few shapes that your students are learning about. Let’s say like the picture below, the sphere, cylinder, rectangular prism, and cube. They will then sort through the pictures of real-world objects and find one that matches the shapes and place them on top.

There are 4 objects to match with each shape, except for the hexagonal prism which only has two. As your students learn more 2D shapes, add in the more as they grow to the sort game.

The 3D shapes that I have included are cone, cube, cylinder, sphere, hexagonal prism, triangular prism, and rectangular prism. If you haven’t introduced all of the shapes yet the students can still play the game with a portion of the shapes.

You can download the Free Printable 3D Shape Sort by click the green button below.

If you’re looking for more ways to practice 3D shapes, we have many other fun activities like this 3D Shapes I Have Who Has Game. It can be played as a whole class or in small groups as well.

What are some of your favorite ways to teach and review 3D shapes in your classroom?

See you next time!

jenette

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We’ve been having so much fun with all of our letter scavenger hunts and all of our other scavenger hunts, I wanted to add number scavenger hunts 1-10 too!

If you would like them in a printable form, they are available on Primary Playground here and TeachersPayTeachers here. There are over 150 scavenger hunts included now. All of them are ready for you to use! They all come 2 to a page or as a single page now too!

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Number One

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Number Two

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Number Three

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Number Four

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Number Five

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Number Six

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Number Seven

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Number Nine

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Number Ten

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I hope you little learners enjoy these Number Scavenger Hunts!

See you next time!

Jenette

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Raise your hand if you love cookies! I sure do, they’re my favorite! Have you ever had a cookie-themed day with your students? Today I’m sharing some Cookie Taste Test Activities you can do to bring in the science and writing for the day.

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Taste Testing and the 5 Senses – Science, Writing and Math

The first activity is we’re going to describe cookies. Grab a pack of chocolate chip cookies from the store and give one to each student. Depending on your class I made 2 different printables for this activity.

The first is they can draw and or write in the boxes to describe their cookie when tasting it. Or you can bring in the 5 senses on option 2 and have them describe their cookie using the 5 senses, writing in their answer in a sentence.

Cookie Taste Test

And our second cookie tasting activity also has 2 options.

Option 1

We’re bringing math into this one! The first option is to find out what type of cookie is the class’s favorite. This one is a great option if you can’t actually have food in the classroom.

The cookie options are chocolate chip cookies, peanut butter cookies, sugar cookies, and oatmeal cookies. You’ll have each of the students ask their classmates which cookie is their favorite.

Depending on their answer they will fill in the matching box on the graph using the correct color. In the end, they can total up the columns and write in the numbers to determine which cookie is the class favorite!

Option 2

And the second option is to pick up 3 bags of cookies from the store. You’ll want to grab a sandwich cookie, an animal cookie and a chocolate chip cookie. Start by giving each student one of each of the cookies and decide which one they like the best.

Next, you’ll have each of the students ask their classmates which cookie is their favorite. Depending on their answer they will fill in the matching box on the graph using the correct color. In the end, they can total up the columns and write in the numbers to determine which cookie is the class favorite!

Lots of great learning going on in these activities with a yummy twist!

Click the green box below to download all of these fun activities altogether.

If you’re looking for some more great cookie ideas to make it a whole cookie-themed day, we have gathered a bunch of fun ideas here.

Do you have any other fun ideas you would add? I hope you have a fantastic time with your students learning, creating special memories, and eating cookies!

See you next time!

Jenette

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Need a fun spring math-based craft for your bulletin board? We’ve got you covered with this Butterfly Spring Math Craftivity to go along with the book Ten For Me.

This is a great way to tie math into your butterfly unit, finishing up your addition unit on the different ways to make ten, or just as a fun spring math project.

Ten For Me is a fun read-aloud where two friends take off on a butterfly hunt, only to find themselves tangled in a mathematics net! Rose, and her friend Ed race to see who can catch the most butterflies on this addition adventure. How many in all? Let s add them again! shout the butterfly hunters. Who will win? Ten for Me makes math fun, easy, and entertaining while adding a touch of the natural world into cross-curricular education.

Several pages throughout the book have fantastic butterfly facts that you can share with your students too.

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Getting Started

Supplies needed

-A large piece of construction paper per student. We used blue to look like the sky but you could use whatever you have.

-Scissors

-Glue Stick

-Crayons

-Download and print the free printable, available at the bottom of the post

Butterfly Spring Math Craftivity

Using it as an addition activity

This works as a great hands-on math activity for the kiddos. You can use it as a center, or you could use it as a visual while reading the book aloud to the class or group.

You’ll simply print out the 2 pages that you can download at the bottom of this post for each student. Have them color the pictures and cut them out. They can use the butterflies to make ten different ways like in the book. Or you could create addition problems on index cards and have them complete them using the butterflies as counters to help.

Using them as a whole group, just print out and color one copy. You could even laminate it so it can be used over and over again. As you read the story, when each day’s butterfly totals are read, have a student create that addition problem. Have the class complete the new way to make ten each time.

Using it as a craft

My favorite is to use it as a math craft project to display in the classroom. Follow the same as above, print, color, and cut out the 2 pages. To make it into a craft, each student will need a large piece of construction paper. 

Before gluing everything down on the paper, have them start with the en butterflies. They can choose how many butterflies each Ed and Rose caught so that the number equals ten. Have them fill in the numbers on the rectangle word problem paper. They can then glue the butterflies on the sheet that matches their answer.

They look adorable all hanging up in the classroom! 

You can download the free printable Butterfly Spring Math Craftivity by clicking the green box below.

Do you have any other fun books you like to use when teaching addition? 

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See you next time!

Jenette

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When I saw this adorable book, Ten Sparkly Snowflakes, I just knew it would be perfect to turn into a fun hands-on math craft. With this Ten Snowflakes Math Craft, we’re incorporating a hands-on activity and math to retell the book.

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I wanted the students to be able to make a fun math craft so I made this free printable. You can use it in a bunch of different ways.

Print it out and retell the story as a class. Have the snow on an anchor chart, and choose a student to come up and put the correct number snowflake in the sky and so on until the story is complete.

Or print it out in black and white and make it into a craft project for your kids. Use a piece of construction paper and have them cut out the snow scene and snowflakes and then glue them onto the paper. They can add additional details if they’d like.

Or draw a stick and give 10 students the snowflakes. As a class, read the book aloud and as their number is called, have the student stand up with their snowflake until the story is over.

Or you can laminate it and use it as a center for the students to practice counting and number sense one through ten.

These cute snowflakes make for such a fun and quick activity during this time of year. Let me know if you have any other ways you’re going to use them in your classroom!

Click the green box to download the free printable Ten Snowflakes Math Craft.

I hope your kiddos enjoy this fun activity!

Thanks for stopping by!

Jenette

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Do you celebrate the 100th day of school with your class? Today’s we have a fun 100th Day Read-Aloud to share with you, Miss Mingo, and the 100th Day of School. by Jamie Harper. This is a new book and has quickly become one of my favorites!

Miss Mingo and her class are celebrating the 100th day of school. The class is made up of an assortment of animals that have brought all kinds of fun items to mark the day. Things range from 100 teddy bears to the number of feet a pelican dives, to the number of spots on each side of a giraffe.

Math becomes a part of the day when it is shown 100 can be reached with a combination of numbers such as two piles of fifty, or ten piles of ten. A highlight of the day is when the students put on their imagination hats to create something from the 100 items each of them is given.

The illustrations in the book are so bright and fun. The 100th day of school has become a day to celebrate and to have a good time, while also sneaking in lots of learning as a part of the celebration. This book captures all the glee of the party, along with the educational fun that goes on along with it.

For our snack today, we’ll be making an edible 100!

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Snack Idea

ingredients – each student will need

1/3 of a pretzel rod – I cut each pretzel rod into thirds

2 cookies with a hole in the center -we used Girl Scout Somoa cookies (a mom has to help her daughter out by buying a few boxes right lol)

assemble

The students can make their own 100 using the food they’ve been given. The pretzel rod will be the 1 and the 2 cookies will be the zeros. You could also use mini donuts for the zeros. Another option if you want to make it healthier you could use a baby carrot as the one and 2 sliced cucumbers as the zeros.

Free Printable

While your students are enjoying their 100th-day snack, I made a free printable for them to work on. They will get to draw in 10 items in each of the boxes to create 100. Similar to the 100th Day read-aloud, when they made 10 piles of shells to create 100.

You can download the free printable from my TeachersPayTeachers store by clicking the green box below.

If you’re looking for another fun activity to go along with the 100th Day read-aloud we’ve shared, we have the 100th Day Color By Code. You can grab it for FREE here.

And your students will have a great time with this 100th-day scavenger hunt too! You can see the digital version here. Or grab the printable version here.

And you can never go wrong with bingo! A perfect addition to your 100th-day celebration! You can grab the 100th-day bingo here.

Do you have any other fun activities you like to do with your class to help celebrate the 100th day of school? Share with us below!

See you next time!

Jenette

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A couple of weeks ago I found these cute winter mini erasers at Target and knew I have to make a fun activity to use with them. So today we have a Free Printable Winter Spin and Graph for you!

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This Free Printable Winter Spin and Graph is a fun hands-on activity to teach your little learners about graphing. This activity is perfect for math workshop, in small groups, or even as an independent whole group activity to introduce graphing and recording data. It is super easy to get ready! You can choose to have the kiddos use mini erasers or if you don’t have any, don’t worry! Simply have them color in a box to do the graphing.

the prep

All you need for each child is:

• a copy of the printable (below)
• a pencil
• a paperclip
• winter erasers or a crayon to mark

to play

The students will use a pencil and paperclip to create a makeshift spinner. Put the tip of the pencil in the paperclip, give it a flick, and see where it lands! They always love this part!

Once they land on a winter picture, they color or mark a square above that winter picture with an x. Have them play until one column reaches the top. That winter picture is then declared “the winner!”

You can download the Free Printable Winter Spin and Graph by clicking the green box below.

For more hands-on winter math fun, we practice counting to twenty with our Polar Bear Counting Mats. 

And practice making ten with our Winter Ten Frame Task Cards. 

What are your favorite ways to use mini erasers with your students?

See you next time!

Jenette

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Do you need a fun way for your little learners to practice their ten frames? Grab some mini erasers and they can practice their countings and numbers with these Free Printable Penguin Ten Frame Cards.

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getting started

The set up is super easy for this activity. Simply download and print the Free Printable Penguin Ten Frame Cards by clicking the green download box at the bottom of this post. Cut them out and laminating the cards is suggested for durability.

We use mini erasers for this activity. These penguins pictures are from a couple of years ago, but I have seen a new winter pack this year that includes snowflakes, penguins, and polar bears which would be perfect to use too! If you don’t have mini erasers, small pom pom balls work well too. You can store them in a sandwich size bag or we like to use clear plastic 4X6 photo cases too.

to play

These Penguin Ten Frame Cards are a fun addition to your math center for the kids to work on counting, one to one correspondence, and even decomposing numbers. Each card has the number and the number word for recognition. Have the students fill in the correct number of squares for the penguin that match the number on the card.

Click the green box below to download the Penguin Ten Frame Cards from my TeachersPayTeachers store for FREE.

If you’re looking for another fun winter counting activity, you might like our Polar Bear Counting Mats too!

I hope your kiddos enjoy this fun hands-on way of practicing their numbers and counting!

See you next time!

Jenette

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Do your little learners love to collect things out on recess? Have them gather up some acorns for you and bring them inside to practice their countings and numbers with these Free Printable Acorn Ten Frame Cards.

This article works well with these resources from Primary Playground.

There are so many fun fall book ideas that have to do with acorn and the changing of the season. We used Squirrel’s Fall Search for our read aloud as a jumping-off point for us to use acorns with our math practice.

We share a bunch of our favorite fall books here that includes some great books with acorns in them.

Getting Started

The setup is super easy for this activity. Simply download and print the Free Printable Acorn Ten Frame Cards by clicking the green download box at the bottom of this post. Cut them out and laminating the cards is suggested for durability. Have your little learners gather up some acorns to count with and you’re all set! You can store them in a sandwich-size bag or we like to use clear plastic 4X6 photo cases too.

To play

These Free Printable Acorn Ten Frame Cards are a fun addition to your math center for the kids to work on counting, one-to-one correspondence, and even decomposing numbers. Each card has the number and the number word for recognition. Have the students fill in the correct number of acorns for the squirrel that match the number on the card.

Click the green box below to download the Acorn Ten Frame Cards.

If you’re looking for another fun activity to use the acorns with, you might like our Squirrel Acorn Counting Mats too!

I hope your kiddos enjoy this fun hands-on way of practicing their numbers and counting!

See you next time!

Jenette

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Do you need to create a simple math center to help your students practice numbers to 10? Our Free Printable Clip Counting Spiders are easy to prepare, perfect for October and your little learners will love them! They’re not only an easy and interactive way for children to practice counting and identifying numbers, but they will also work on developing their fine motor skills too.

They will be a great addition to your math centers.

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Getting ready

This game/center is super quick and easy to make. All you need is to download and print the Free Printable Clip Counting Spiders from the bottom of this post, cut them out, and add in some clothespins and you’re all set! You don’t need to laminate these sets, but they will last much longer if you do.

How to Play

Each spider has a number on it. The student picks up a spider and looks at the number. Encourage them to say the number aloud. Then they clip the correct number of clothespins onto the spider creating legs.   Repeat until all the spiders have clothespins on them.

These are perfect to use during October, for Halloween, during your spider unit, or even for your nursery rhyme unit to go along with Little Miss Muffett or The Itsy Bitsy Spider.

You can store the spider in a bag or container with the clothespins, so the game is always ready to go or be safely put away for next year.

These Free Printable Clip Counting Spiders are a fun and hands-on way to practice counting and identifying numbers. This simple, low-prep activity is perfect to use as a math warm-up at the beginning of class, during small guided math groups, or to put out at a math station. They can easily be printed and sent home for students to practice counting with their families too.

You can download the Free Printable Clip Counting Spiders by clicking the green box below.

If you’re looking for another fun way for your little learners to practice their numbers and counting, you may like our spider counting mats. These are numbers 1-20. We use little plastic spiders and the kids just love it! You can find the counting mats here on TPT.

Let us know if you have any other fun ways that you’ll be using these Free Printable Clip Counting Spiders.

See you next time!

Jenette

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I love creating activities to go along with books we love! Today we’re reading Pete the Cat and the Missing Cupcakes!

Pete the Cat and his friend Gus are making cupcakes for a cupcake party they are having. When they have finished making the cupcakes, they suddenly start to disappear. They continue to do so and they try to figure out who has been taking them. By the end of the book, they find out who the cupcake muncher has been, they forgive him and invite him to the cupcake party as well.

To go along with the story, I made this Cupcake Subtraction Craft Activity.

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Cupcake Subtraction Activity

This would make a great hands-on math activity for the kiddos. You can use it as a center, or you could use it as a visual while reading the book aloud to the class or group.

You’ll simply print out the 2 pages that you can download at the bottom of this post for each student. Have them color the pictures and cut them out. They can use them to make different subtraction problems. Or you could create subtraction problems on index cards and have them complete them using the cupcakes as counters to help.

Using them as a whole group, just print out and color one copy. You could even laminate so it can be used over and over again. As you read the story, each time 2 of the cupcakes disappear, have a student remove that many. Have the class complete the new subtraction problem each time.

Cupcake Subtraction Craft

My favorite is to use it as a math craft project to display in the classroom. Follow the same as above, print, color, and cut out the 2 pages. To make it into a craft, each student will need a large piece of construction paper.

Before gluing everything down on the paper, have them start with ten cupcakes. They can choose how many cupcakes to take away to create their subtraction problem. Have them fill in the numbers on the rectangle word problem paper. They can then glue the number of cupcakes on the sheet that matches their answer. They can glue the cupcakes they took away to the top of the construction paper or under the word problem rectangle if they have room.

They look adorable all hanging up in the classroom!

You can download the free printable Cupcake Subtraction Craft Activity by clicking the green box below.

Do you have any other fun books you like to use when teaching subtraction?

See you next time!

Jenette

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Need a fun way to practice counting and using ten frames? I am sharing two fun activities with you today to help build these skills with this Free Printable Ten Frame Practice.

These resources work well with these activities.

The Setup

For these two activities, you’ll just need the Free Printable Ten Frame Practice download available at the bottom of this post, and you will also need some type of manipulative, pom pom, or some play-doh to use as counters. Play-doh is always a fun option as they can roll it into balls and use them to count. Below we used glass beads that we found at DollarTree.

To play

To play the first game, you will only need the larger empty ten-frame card and the bubble numbers. You will also need some type of manipulative, pom pom, or some play-doh.

Have the student choose one of the bubble numbers and then they will fill in the ten frames with the appropriate number of bubbles. This is a great way for the kids to work on counting, one-to-one correspondence, and even decomposing numbers.

The second game for the students to play is a matching game. You will need each of the smaller ten frame cards and the bubble numbers for this game.

Have the students layout each of the ten frame cards. They can then match the correct number bubble to the matching ten frames.

You can download the Free Printable Ten Frame Practice activities by clicking the green box below.

What other ways do you like to have your students practice ten frames?

See you next time!

Jenette

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If you’ve been around a while, you know that I love making games to help kids learn. I have a reading bingo and a summer reading bingo that I’ve shared before. So it was time for a Free Printable Math Bingo!

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This Free Printable Math Bingo is full of fun math activities to keep your kids thinking. From making patterns to counting things around the house to playing math memory with a deck of cards.

This would make a great addition to a summer review packet to give your kids or even as part of an end of the year gift. Print out the bingo card, grab decks of cards, and a few packs of dice from the Dollar Store to make an inexpensive educational gift to give to your students.

You could even tell them that if they complete all of the items on the board over the summer and bring it back to you, you’ll give them a prize.

Click the big green box below to download the math bingo.

If your students like this math bingo, they may also like this screen-free bingo too! You can hop over and grab that one here for free.

I hope this helps those little ones learn to love math by making it fun!

See you next time!

jenette

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With everyone staying at home and e-learning happening everywhere, I thought it would be fun to make different scavenger hunts to share with you each day for the kiddos to do.

They are listed in the order that I am posting them on Facebook. So you can choose whichever one you’d like to do.

I’ve gotten sooo many requests to have them be printable as well, so I put them all together in this resource. It currently has over 122 scavenger hunts. As I continue to make more, I will be adding to this as well.

You can grab the printable scavenger hunts directly from Primary Playground here or from my TeachersPayTeachers store here.

St. Patrick’s Day Scavenger Hunt

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Backyard Scavenger Hunt

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5 Senses Scavenger Hunt

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Spring Scavenger Hunt

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Rainbow Scavenger Hunt

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Book Scavenger Hunt

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Math Scavenger Hunt

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Inventor Scavenger Hunt

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Indoor Scavenger Hunt

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Nature Scavenger Hunt

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Letters Scavenger Hunt

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Black and White Scavenger Hunt

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Shapes Scavenger Hunt

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Rhyming Scavenger Hunt

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Neighborhood Scavenger Hunt

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Numbers Scavenger Hunt

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Easter Scavenger Hunt

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Rainy Day Scavenger Hunt

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Outdoor Scavenger Hunt

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Desert Scavenger Hunt

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Sight Word Scavenger Hunt

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Park Scavenger Hunt

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Earth Day Scavenger Hunt

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Community Scavenger Hunt

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Snow Day Scavenger Hunt

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Living and Non-Living Scavenger Hunt

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Urban Scavenger Hunt

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Gratitude Scavenger Hunt

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Autumn Scavenger Hunt

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Q & U Scavenger Hunt

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Apartment Scavenger Hunt

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Night Time Scavenger Hunt

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2D Shape Scavenger Hunt

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Mother’s Day Scavenger Hunt

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3D Shapes Scavenger Hunt

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Home Scavenger Hunt

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Colors Scavenger Hunt

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Garden Scavenger Hunt

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Sunshine Scavenger Hunt

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Transportation Scavenger Hunt

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Caribbean Scavenger Hunt

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Birthday Scavenger Hunt

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Bigger or Smaller Scavenger Hunt

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Digraphs Scavenger Hunt

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Blends Scavenger Hunt

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Patriotic Scavenger Hunt

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Father’s Day Scavenger Hunt

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Zoo Scavenger Hunt

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Double OO Scavenger Hunt

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Controlled R Scavenger Hunt

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Camping Scavenger Hunt

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Taller or Shorter Scavenger Hunt

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Animal Scavenger Hunt

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Fairy Tale Scavenger Hunt

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Lighter or Heavier Scavenger Hunt

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Beach Day Scavenger Hunt

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Canada Day Scavenger Hunt

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Nursery Rhyme Scavenger Hunt

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Farm Scavenger Hunt

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Insect Scavenger Hunt

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Back To School Scavenger Hunt

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Virtual Back To School Scavenger Hunt

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All About Me Scavenger Hunt

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The Night Before The First Day Of School Scavenger Hunt

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Computer Scavenger Hunt

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iPad Scavenger Hunt

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Chromebook Scavenger Hunt

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Google Classroom Scavenger Hunt

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Apple Orchard Scavenger Hunt

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Pirate Scavenger Hunt

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Fall Scavenger Hunt

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Pumpkin Patch Scavenger Hunt

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School Supply Scavenger Hunt

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Fire Safety Scavenger Hunt

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Halloween Decoration Scavenger Hunt

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Halloween Scavenger Hunt

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Creepy Scavenger Hunt

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Halloween Candy Scavenger Hunt

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Thankful Scavenger Hunt

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Thanksgiving Scavenger Hunt

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Thanksgiving Day Parade Scavenger Hunt

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Christmas Lights Scavenger Hunt

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Christmas Scavenger Hunt

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Christmas Lights #2 Scavenger Hunt

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Christmas Eve Scavenger Hunt

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Chanukah Scavenger Hunt

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Winter Scavenger Hunt

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CVC Short A Scavenger Hunt

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CVC Short E Scavenger Hunt

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CVC Short I Scavenger Hunt

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CVC Short O Scavenger Hunt

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CVC Short U Scavenger Hunt

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Valentine’s Day Scavenger Hunt

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Weather Scavenger Hunt

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Opposite Scavenger Hunt

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Grocery Store Scavenger Hunt

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Pet Store Scavenger Hunt

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Mardi Gras Scavenger Hunt

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Purim Scavenger Hunt

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Passover Scavenger Hunt

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Cinco de Mayo Scavenger Hunt

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OI and OY Scavenger Hunt

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Double EE Words Scavenger Hunt

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End Of The School Year Scavenger Hunt

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Long A Scavenger Hunt

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Long I Scavenger Hunt

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Long O Scavenger Hunt

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Long U Scavenger Hunt

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Summer Scavenger Hunt

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Wild West Scavenger Hunt

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Road Trip Scavenger Hunt

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New Year’s Scavenger Hunt

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100th Day Scavenger Hunt

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2’s Day Scavenger Hunt

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Food Pairs Scavenger Hunt

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Lunar New Year Scavenger Hunt

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Around The School Scavenger Hunt

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Kwanzaa Scavenger Hunt

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Jenette

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As I was walking through Dollar Tree the other day, I saw these colorful popsicle sticks and thought they were perfect for a rainbow project! So today I’m sharing Rainbow Tally Marks practice to help build number sense.

These rainbow tally marks are a great, hands-on way to practice counting by 5’s, counting on, and working on fine motor a bit as well! Rainbows always make me happy and are great to use all year long, or during your weather unit, St. Patrick’s Day, or spring in general.

Getting ready

You’ll need colorful popsicle sticks (we found them at Dollar Tree) or you could use regular popsicle sticks too if you can’t find the colorful ones. You’ll also need to download, print and cut out the rainbow number cards that you can find at the bottom of this post.

Counting Tally Marks

To play, have your student choose a rainbow number card. They can then use the colorful popsicle sticks to create that number as tally marks. Once they have created the number correctly, they can choose another number to make.

These work great during small groups so you can be sitting there to help make sure their count is correct but can easily be used as a math center ask well. You could even send them home with the kiddos that need a little extra practice.

We used plastic photo boxes to keep the sticks and rainbow number cards all together so they can easily be stored. The kids can easily grab the boxes during center or small group time and start working.

You can download the rainbow number cards by clicking the green download box below.

I hope your kiddos love making rainbow tally marks! See you next time!

Jenette

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Since this year is a leap year, I thought it would be fun to tie it into a math activity. Your students will have fun practicing their skip counting by 2’s, 5’s, or 10’s with this Leap Year Skip Counting Board Game.

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First, I wanted to share some of our favorite skip counting videos.

Count by 2’s Dancing 2’s by Jack Harmann

Dancing 2’s is a fun way for kids to learn to skip count by 2. Kids follow along doing different dances as they count to 100 by 2. Every time they hit a placeholder of tens they change dances.

Exercise and Count by 5 by Jack Harmann

This fun song set to a Latin bear makes it easy to exercise and count by 5’s.

Count Together by 10’s by Jack Harmann

This is a great video to get your kids up and moving while they count along by 10’s.

Workout and Count- Skip Count by 2’s, 5’s and 10’s | Count Backwards | by Jack Hartmann

Count by 2’s, 5’s, 10’s, odd numbers as well as skip count forward and backwards in this interactive learning video. Workout and count has a powerful beat that will motivate your children to move and have fun as they count by 1’s, 2’s, 5’s, 10’s, and odd numbers. Your children will get some great exercise as they practice their counting forward, counting backwards, and counting on skills.

Now that we’ve had some fun practicing our skip counting and getting the wiggles out, let’s play a game! This Leap Year Skip Counting Board Game can be used as a leap year activity but can, of course, be used any time of the year. I made 3 different game boards so your students can play spending on the counting method they’re working on right now.

To Prepare

You’ll need to print out the board game of your choice. You can download it at the bottom of this post. To play, you will also need a die and 2 game pieces to move. We used snap cubes, but anything from coins to mini erasers would work.

To Play

Have the person player roll the die and move that many spaces. If the player la ads on a flower, they will need to say the missing number. The player to the finish first wins. Have the players play again with a different board game to practice different ways of skip counting.

You can download the Leap Year Skip Counting Board Games by clicking the green box below.

If you’re looking for some more skip counting activities, we have some more fun options for you!

In this Leap Year Leap Frog Skip Counting Activity, there are skip counting cards for the students to put in the correct order and then use the frog to leap from lily pad to lily pad to practice their skip counting. There is also a page of blank lily pads for the students to write in the numbers.

Also included are numbers 2-100 to have the students place each number card in order for them to practice skip counting, by 2, 5, or 10’s.

And we also have this free printable skip counting by 2’s activity.

What are some of your favorite ways to have your students practice skip counting?

See you next time

Jenette

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Do you celebrate the 100th day of school with your class? Today I’m sharing a fun activity you can add to your special day, a Free 100th Day Celebration Color By Code page.

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Reading The Night Before the 100th Day of School by Natasha Wing is a must! Such a fun story for the 100th day!

Another fun read-aloud to go along with the day is Miss Mingo and the 100th Day of School. I have created a literacy snack and free printable to go along with the book too. You can find out more here.

As part of celebrating 100 days of school, we like to do activities that revolve around counting to 100, by both 1’s and 10’s. I’ve created a fun 100th Day Celebration Color By Code activity that will allow your student to practice numbers counting by 10 to fill out the picture.

The first time the students do this activity, I always encourage them to color the crayons first so they can easily see which color the number needs to be.

To do the color by code number, the students will carefully color the picture one area at a time using the matching color for the number. The students will continue coloring the numbers until the entire picture has been completed. They will then be able to see their hidden picture!

You can download the Free 100th Day Celebration Color By Code from my TeachersPayTeachers store below.

If your students enjoyed this free printable color by code numbers, they’ll love these winter-themed color by code sight words. There are 50 pages that include the pre-primer Dolch words. Or primer words here.

We even have CVC word color by codes too!

What are some fun things you do to celebrate the 100th day with your class?

Thanks for stopping by!

Jenette

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Are you little learners working on learning their 2D shapes right now?  I made this Free Printable 2D Shape Sort for a fun way to review. They’re perfect to add them into your center rotation or to use in small groups. The students always love these sorting games.

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Getting Started

Download, print and cut out the shapes and game pieces. Laminating is suggested if you’ll be using in the classroom for durability.

To Play

To play the shape sort, you can start with just a few shapes that your students are learning about. Let’s say like the picture above, square, circle, and triangle. They will then sort through the pictures of real-world objects and find one that matches the shapes and place them on top.

There are 4 objects to match with each shape. As your students learn more 2D shapes, add in the more as they grow to the sort game.

The 2D shapes that I have included are a square, triangle, circle, rectangle, hexagon, oval and rhombus. If you haven’t introduced all of the shapes yet the students can still play the game with a portion of the shapes.

If you’re looking for more ways to practice 2D shapes, we have many other fun activities like these 2D shape hats.

Our 2D and 3D shape spin and covers, and a fun activity for small groups or the whole class, 2D shape bingo.

And our all time favorite 2D shape picture crafts. And you can get our free scarecrow one here and our free flower one here.

You can download the Free Printable 2D Shape Sort below.

What are some of your favorite ways to teach and review 2D shapes in your classroom?

See you next time!

Jenette

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At the beginning of the school year a lot is focused on letters during ELA time and numbers during math time. From identifying letters, learning sounds, writing letters to counting objects, identifying numbers, and writing numbers. Being able to differentiate between letters and number is an important skill for our little learners.

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To help with this concept, I have two favorite books to read. Chicka Chicka Boom Boom for letters and Chicka Chicka 1,2,3 for numbers. Both books are so catchy and will have your kids and is a great way to help introduce the concept.

Free Printable Letters and Numbers Sort

To help reinforce the concept of letter and number discrimination I made a free printable letters and numbers sort that can be used during either math, ELA, or both for the students to practice.

Simply download and print the printable. Add letters and number manipulatives and you’re ready to go. I used magnetic letters and numbers and also mini eraser letters and numbers found in the Target Dollar Spot section. Foam letters and numbers would work great as well.

Not only are the students getting to practice differentiating letters and numbers, but they are also getting to work on their fine motor skills as well.

You can download the free printable letters and numbers sort below.

If you’re looking for more fun ideas to go along with the book Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, you may want to check out our literacy snack idea that we did to go along with the book.

Or our free printable alphabet tree to help learn the letters and practice writing them.

What are some of your favorite ways to teach about number and letter differentiation?

See you next time!

Jenette

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If your kids love solving puzzles and jokes, do I have a fun one for you today! A few years back, my son was obsessed with solving puzzles and codes so I thought it would make math practice FUN! Throw in some jokes and they can’t get enough of these FREE Free Printable Crack the Code Math pages!

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Getting Started

The best part about these crack the code sheets is that they are just print and go! No prep involved!

Free Printable Crack the Code Math

I’ve included 2 pages in the download. One page is addition problems and the second is subtraction problems. We’ve been deep into space study lately so we continue with the space theme and the code or joke that they’ll be trying to solve will be space-related. 

Your student will solve each of the problems. They will then fill in the lines at the bottom of the sheet with the letters that match the answers to crack the code. There is an answer key for each included as well.

Solving these codes or jokes makes math practice sooooo much more fun!

You can download the free printable crack the code math from my TeachersPayTeachers store below.

If your students like these, we have a TON more available. We have a pack of more space-themed jokes here.

Or you can buy the whole bundle of them with a bunch of different themes here.

I hope your students love solving the jokes as much as mine do!

What is your student’s favorite way to practice their addition and subtraction?

See you next time!

Jenette

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Have you seen the new mini erasers at the Target Dollar Spot? I’m obsessed with the tacos! I knew right away that I wanted to use them to go along with the book Dragons Love Tacos and create several different math activities for the kids to practice counting with them.

This Free Printable Dragon Tacos Spin and Graphis a fun activity to teach your little learners about graphing. This activity is perfect for math workshops, in small groups, or even as an independent whole group activity to introduce graphing and recording data. It is super easy to get ready!

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Free Printable Dragon Tacos Spin and Graph

The Prep

All you need for each child is:

• a copy of the printable (below)
• a pencil
• a paperclip
• taco mini erasers or a crayon to mark

To Play

The students will use a pencil and paperclip to create a makeshift spinner. Put the tip of the pencil in the paperclip, give it a flick, and see where it lands! They always love this.

Once they land on a taco picture, they color or mark a square above that taco picture with an x. Have them play until one column reaches the top. That taco picture is then declared “the winner!”

You can download the Free Printable Dragon Tacos Spin and Graph from my Teachers Pay Teachers store below.

For more math fun using our taco mini erasers, we practice counting to twenty with our Dragon Taco Counting Mats. 

And practice making ten with our Dragon Taco Ten Frame Task Cards. 

And be sure to check out how we used Dragons Love Tacos for our literacy snack read-aloud and grab the free printable wordsearch to go along with the book.

What are your favorite ways to use mini erasers with your students?

See you next time!

Jenette

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The weather is warm, so why not bring the learning outdoors with this math water balloon toss! There are so many fun possibilities and different levels that this could be used for.

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Supplies you’ll need

Sidewalk chalk

water balloons  or  sponges and a bucket of water to  put them in

Little learner games

For our little learners, have them practice writing their numbers one through ten with chalk and draw a circle around the number.  Next, using either water balloons or wet sponges, call out a number and have them toss the balloon on the number.

If you’re kiddos know their numbers have them move to numbers all the way to 100 using the same concept.

Working on building 10?  Help them draw ten frames in the sidewalk and have them help fill them in. Call out a number and have them toss the sponge or balloon on it.

Big kids

How about practicing addition or subtraction facts? Write a bunch of problems and circle them. Have them choose a problem, read it out loud, and say the answer then through the water balloon to show they completed it.

You can do the same thing with multiplication as well to get the older kids playing!

I hope your kiddos have fun getting outside playing in the water but getting some fun math practice in at the same time!

If you like these math water balloon toss ideas, you may want to check out our sight word water balloon toss and our letters and sounds water balloon toss.

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I’m always looking for new ways to incorporate math into something fun. Today we’re are working on our number bonds to ten with this fun kite craft perfect for spring.

This math craftivity is a fun way to conclude your unit on ways to make ten and the kites look adorable hanging up around the classroom for spring.

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Supplies

Each student needs

the free kite printable you can download for free at the bottom of the post

tape

scissors

crayons

a long piece of yarn

Instructions

To make the number bonds to ten kite craft, the students will first write in all the different ways to make ten on the bows on the free printable. They can then color the bows if they choose to and color the kite as well. Next, they will cut out all of the bows and the kite.

Last, they will tape the yarn to the back of the kite as a tail. Then tape each of the bows to the yarn all the way down. Cut off any remaining yarn.

We even took them outside to let them blow in the wind since it was a windy day. so much fun in this little project!

Don’t they come out adorable? Perfect to display in the classroom or hall for spring.

Click on the green box below to download the free printable, number bonds to ten kite craft from my TeachersPayTeachers store.

If your little learners need a bit mor3e practice with making ten with number bonds, these number bond task cards are perfect to add to your math centers, or even as send home practice.

What are some of your other favorite ways to practice making ten with number bonds?

See you next time!

Jenette

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There are so many fun activities to help teach about 2D shapes. We’re reviewing our 2D shapes and I wanted to incorporate something fun for spring into the mix.

With this free printable 2D shape flower,  we are practicing our 2D shapes, colors, counting, and fine motor skills.

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Free Printable 2D Shape Flower

To start, have the students color the shapes on the page according to the directions.

Next, they’ll cut out all of the shapes. When they have all of the pieces cut out, they’ll need the, “My Shape Flower” page. They will glue all of the pieces onto the page using the shapes to make their flower and sun.

Lastly, they will count all of the shapes they used and write them on the correct lines.

I love it when we can incorporate all different types of math into one project!

We even have a whole pack of holiday and seasonal 2D shape crafts if your students liked this one!

Click the green box to download the free printable 2D shape flower.

If you’re looking for other fun ways to review 2D shapes, little learners love playing 2D shape bingo to review their shapes!

And another favorite is these 2D shape hats. They love making these hats and are so proud to parade around the school showing them off.

And to add to your math center rotation, these 2D shape spin and covers are always fun!

We also have this FREE fun hands-on 2D Shape Sort You can check that out and download that here.

What are some of your favorite ways for your students to practice their 2D shapes?

See you next time!

Jenette

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